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Title: MONTANO
By: Enrique Vila-Matas, Jonathan Dunne (Trans)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1910701149
ISBN 13: 9781910701140
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Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 25 January, 2016
Pages: 304
Translated from: Spanish
Description: A man's obsession with literature leads him to see the world through the eyes of fiction. Literature can be contagious; it can also be our only means of salvation. This title takes the reader on a journey from European cities such as Nantes, Barcelona, Lisbon, Prague and Budapest to the Azores and the Chilean port of Valparaiso.
Synopsis: A man's obsession with literature leads him to see the world through the eyes of fiction Literature can be contagious; it can also be our only means of salvation. That at least is the experience of Montano, the 'unreliable narrator' of Enrique Vila-Matas' prize-winning novel, a man and a writer who is so obsessed with the books of certain celebrated contemporaries that he is unable to put pen to paper or utter a word without summoning up their work or their lives, and whose malady is that he finds it impossible to distinguish between real life and fictional reality. Part picaresque novel, part intimate diary, part memoir, part philosophical musings, Vila-Matas has created a labyrinth in which writers as various as Cervantes, Sterne, Kafka, Musil, Perec, Bolano, Coetzee, Sebald and Magris cross endlessly surprising paths, while his protagonist leads the reader on an unsettling journey from European cities such as Nantes, Barcelona, Lisbon, Prague and Budapest to the Azores and the Chilean port of Valparaiso. Yet for all the author's dazzling literary pyrotechnics, this is a novel that is always witty and accessible.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Returns: Returnable
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